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Ballyhornan Harbour and Telegraph Cable

 

Ballyhornan Harbour

Importing and Exporting from Ballyhornan in the 1820's

The parliamentary papers of 1837 described the little harbour as:There is a small pier at the foot of Ballyhornan village, erected by a local corn merchant for Ballyhornan and his own accomodation, but it is only suuficent for a vessel of small tonnage. The fishing boats are drawn up on the beach.

Boats would come in to pick up milled corn from the local mills like Sheepland and Killard and in return left mainly coal or other ordered items such as slate for roofs. The harbour was in disuse by 1850 and all that is left are its old stones.

Ballyhornan Harbour 1850

 

The Telegraph Cable coming ashore at Ballyhornan

The Cable comung ashore at ballyhornan

The ship in the distance is the S.S. Faraday.

Down Recorder newspaper
Saturday 31st August 1929, page 3.

The new North of Ireland telephone service to New York through the new cable via Ballyhornan and the Isle of Man and then by wireless telephony from Rugby, opened on Monday. A three-minute call costs £9 6s, and every minute extra £3 2s. The time is charged from the moment the persons begin to speak. During the tests the voices in New York were heard with perfect clearness.